The Watchers
If you’re an American and are desperately running from your past, where should you go? To a pet shop in Galway, Ireland, of course. Given how essential this detail is to the entire story of The Watchers, you would think it would be addressed at some point, but no. For a movie that is ultimately about the importance of getting the details right, The Watchers rarely bothers to do so. While it does stop at regular intervals to deliver unwieldy gobs of exposition that explain what is happening, it never concerns itself with why. It’s a story that insists on giving a perfectly logical explanation for everything, but doesn’t make any logical sense.
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